This is regarding the intelligent design trial taking place in Pennsylvania (“Court told board urged creationism; Witness says she was shocked by bigotry” (News, Sept. 29).
Once again religious conservatism is proving itself to be inflexible and intolerant of anyone else’s beliefs.
In truth, the supporters of the theory of intelligent design are unwilling to even consider the possibility that hundreds of years of true scientific study and discovery could be correct.
As Jim Grove, pastor of Heritage Baptist Church in Loganville, Pa., and a creationist, stated in the story, “You can’t put God in a test tube. Basically, you have two things here: intelligent design and bonehead happenstance. I just happen to believe God’s intelligent. If he isn’t, we’re hurtling through space at a very rapid speed, and no one’s in control.”
I disagree with Grove’s premise. While we may indeed be hurtling through space at a very rapid speed, we are not out of control.
The principles of science and nature that have been discovered through painstaking research over the past 200 or so years control the movement of our planet, and of our solar system.
To dismiss the results of carefully annotated research as “bonehead happenstance” simply because it disagrees with one’s religious views shows a lack of the necessary intelligence to express such an opinion.
And to expect everyone else to agree with your narrow view of creation is to wish a return to the time when intelligent thought was stifled, and people were punished for not following the teachings of religious zealots–a time better known as the Dark Ages.
